Vespucci Property Editor

The property editor screen is the central place for changing object attributes and relation memberships. To exit and save your changes tap the back icon in the upper left hand corner, pressing the device back button will give you the option of exiting without saving. Tags with empty value fields will not be saved.

Most of the fields use context sensitive auto complete provided by the active presets. Clicking twice (with a short pause) will re-display the auto complete menu.

Depending on size and orientation of your device the layout will change to make maximum use of the space available.

small devices: tab layout with Presets, Properties (including the recently used presets), Details and Relations tabs. If the selected object is a relation a further Members tab will be available.

large devices in portrait orientation: multi pane layout with a pane for the tabs, one for the Recently Used Presets and for the Presets screen

If the property editor is started with multiple elements selected only the Details and Presets tabs will be available. Tabs can be changed by swiping or by tapping the header.

If the Display tag form preference in the Advanced preferences has been disabled pre-0.9.8 behaviour is enabled and the Details tab will have the heading Properties.

In the tabs tapping the checkbox in the header row will select/de-select all elements.

Properties Tab

This tab gives a simplified, preset-driven, editing screen for the tags on the selected object on which the keys are represented by their description. To remove individual attributes you can simple remove or reset the value (or delete them in the Details tab).

Fields are added by applying presets, either via the Preset tab or via the Apply best preset button.

Details Tab

Display of the key - value attributes of the edited object.

The following operations can be performed on selected tags

Delete - delete the tag from the current object

Copy - copy the tag to the internal clipboard and to the system clipboard in a text representation.

Cut - same as copy, but delete the tag from this object.

Special auto complete behaviour

If the key of a field is "addr:street" a list of the nearest roads in the downloaded data will be provided.

If the key is "name", selection of a value from the auto complete list will add corresponding tags and if enabled in the settings, apply an appropriate preset. Typical use case: add a name key and start typing "mcd", select "McDonalds's" from the auto completion list and an amenity with the correct tags and name spelling will be added.

If multiple objects with different values for the same tags are being edited, such value fields will display 'Multiple values' and the auto-complete list will contain the existing values with a count. Setting the value to a specific value will set it for all objects, an empty value will leave the values untouched.

Add address tags

Add address tags for the object. This function will try to predict the house number to suggest. It works best along straight roads with regular numbering schemes.

Apply best preset

Will locate the best matching preset to the existing tags and apply the preset adding further suggested fields.

Paste

Paste and merge the tags from the internal clipboard.

Revert

Tapping the icon once will reset the tags to the values as they were when the property editor was started.

Paste from clipboard

Paste and merge multi-line text from the system clipboard. If the lines have the form key=value the lines will be split at the = and pasted in to key and values fields, otherwise the complete lines will be copied to the value field. This function can be used for example with OCR apps.

Surveyed

Short cut for adding source=survey to the object. This is deprecated, the normal place to add source tags is in the corresponding field on the upload form. The action is only available on the Details tab.

Map Features Wiki

Invoke a web browser on the map features page in the OpenStreetMap wiki. (requires network connectivity)

Reset address prediction

Empty the current address cache and re-seed from downloaded OpenStreetMap data.

Reset Presets

Reset the most recently used preset list and remove short cuts from the tag editor screen.

Help

Start the on device help browser.

Relations Tab

Display of the relations the edited object is a member of and the role in the relation.

The following operation can be performed on selected relations.

Delete - remove the edited object from this relation.

Revert

Tapping the icon once will reset the relations to the values as they were when the property editor was started.

Add to relation

Add the current object to a existing relation in the download.

Help

Start the on device help browser.

Members Tab

For relations only, display the members of the relation.

Members with a dark object field and only a numeric id displayed have not been downloaded.

The following operation can be performed on selected relation members.

Delete - remove the object from this (the edited) relation.

Move up - move the member up one position.

Move down - move the member down one position.

Sort - sort ways so that they are connected, nodes and relations retain the order that they have and are placed above the ways.

Reverse order - reverse the order of the selected members.

Move to top - move the member to the top of the list.

Move to bottom - move the member to the bottom of the list.

Download - download the selected members. if all members are selected the members will be downloaded including ways that are parents of nodes that are a relation member, otherwise the individual members are downloaded and for nodes the parent ways are not downloaded.

Revert

Tapping the icon once will reset the members to the values as they were when the property editor was started.

Scroll to Top

Scroll the screen to the top.

Scroll to Bottom

Scroll the screen to the bottom.

Help

Start the on device help browser.

Preset display

Find, select and apply a preset. Groups of presets have a light background, presets a dark one.